Casein on plate;
Monogrammed and dated at lower right and signed, titled, dated, description of technique, exhibition history on verso;
36.8 x 43.7 inches inch framed;
Orientated towards Expressionism and New Objectivity in his youth, Matulla developed a painterly realism after 1945 that was interspersed with a great deal of dynamism and sometimes approached abstraction by virtue of Cubist elements. Nevertheless, he never abandoned the subject, usually the landscape. In his multi-layered oil paintings, the experience of colour sometimes seems to take on a life of its own. Until 1943, he mainly used wood engraving and woodcut, and from 1948 he also used fablithography and etching. Thematically, his work is dominated by landscapes, architecture and animal depictions.’
[from: Pappernigg, Michaela (Bearb.): Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bestandskatalog der Österreichischen Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 3: L–R, hrsg. v. d. Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Wien 1997, S. 77]
